The demonstration garden was created in 2019 by sustainable landscape designer Christine Kelly, with the help of CNPS and Helping Humboldt volunteers. It also functions as a living seed bank for the nursery.

The garden is nestled in a corner of the nursery, spanning 0.03 acres (~1,120 square feet). It represents 4 distinctive eco-systems, and is home to over 90 species of Humboldt County and California native plants. Diligent plant labeling makes this garden especially useful for aspiring botanists.

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Grassland
California buckeye (Aesculus californica)
One leaf onion (Allium unifolium)
Narrow leaf milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis)
Showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)
White globe lily (Calochortus albus)
Beach evening-primrose (Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia)
Cobweb thistle (Cirsium occidentale)
Punch bowl godetia (Clarkia bottae)
Yerba buena (Clinopodium douglasii)
Chinese houses (Collinsia heterophylla)
Twining snakelily (Dichelostemma volubile)
Seaside daisy (Erigeron glaucus)
Common woolly sunflower (Eriophyllum lanatum)
Heartleaf keckiella (Keckiella cordifolia)
Columbia lily (Lilium columbianum)
Common meadow foam (Limnanthes douglasii)
California melicgrass (Melica californica)
Mountain coyote mint (Monardella odoratissima)
Deergrass (Muhlenbergia rigens)
Leafy aster (Symphyotrichum foliaceum)
Redwood
Coast onion (Allium dichlamydeum)
Western columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
Elk's clover (Aralia californica)
Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
Deer fern (Blechnum spicant)
Brook foam (Boykinia occidentalis)
Pacific reedgrass (Calamagrostis nutkaensis)
Golden globelily (Calochortus amabilis)
Common camas (Camassia quamash)
Purple clarkia (Clarkia purpurea)
Bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa)
Orange bush monkeyflower (Diplacus aurantiacus)
Mahogany fawn lily (Erythronium revolutum)
Bigelow's sneezeweed (Helenium bigelovii)
Crevice alumroot (Heuchera micrantha)
Yellowleaf iris (Iris chrysophylla)
Douglas iris (Iris douglasiana)
Ground iris (Iris macrosiphon)
Toughleaf iris (Iris tenax)
Meadow lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus)
Riverbank lupine (Lupinus rivularis)
False lily of the valley (Maianthemum dilatatum)
False solomon seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
Bolander's phacelia (Phacelia bolanderi)
Mosquito bills (Primula hendersonii)
Large flowered fairy bell (Prosartes smithii)
Red flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum)
Western thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
Checker bloom (Sidalcea malviflora)
Cardinal catchfly (Silene californica)
Blue eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum)
Fringe cups (Tellima grandiflora)
Sugar scoop (Tiarella trifoliata)
Piggyback plant (Tolmiea diplomenziesii)
Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum)
Northern vancouveria (Vancouveria hexandra)
Dog violet (Viola adunca)
Evergreen violet (Viola sempervirens)
Coastal
Sea thrift (Armeria maritima)
Wild ginger (Asarum caudatum)
California aster (Corethrogyne filaginifolia)
Bluff lettuce (Dudleya farinosa)
Coast buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium)
Beach strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)
Oregon gumweed (Grindelia stricta)
Rock phacelia (Phacelia californica)
Beach knotweed (Polygonum paronychia)
Broad-leaved stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium)
Cape blanco common stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium 'cape blanco')
Container
Farewell to spring (Clarkia amoena)
Diamond clarkia (Clarkia rhomboidea)
Scarlet larkspur (Delphinium cardinale)
Coastal california poppy (Eschscholzia californica v. maritima)
California goldfields (Lasthenia californica)
Sky lupine (Lupinus nanus)
Five-spot (Nemophila maculata)
Baby blue eyes (Nemophila menziesii)
Scabland penstemon (Penstemon deustus)
Low beardtongue (Penstemon humuilis)
Riparian
California pitcherplant (Darlingtonia californica)
Blue dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum)
Scarlet monkeyflower (Erythranthe cardinalis)
Coastal miterwort (Pectiantia ovalis)
Nested polypody fern (Polypodium calirhiza)
Sword fern (Polystichum munitum)

Canyon dudleya (Dudleya cymosa)
California fescue (Festuca californica)
Mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii)